Wednesday, January 26, 2011

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.— Virginia Woolf, 1882 - 1941 from Quotes of the Day

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

fellow-ess Joshua Tree resident and amazing artist Karine Swenson has deigned to collaborate with me to make some paintings...here is one that we started at our first session and finished at the second:

IRVING BEAR oil on canvas 40" x 30"

by Karine Swenson and Tina Bluefield

We will be showing these paintings at JTAG (the Joshua Tree Art Gallery) during February. The opening reception happens in a Joshua Tree Gallery Crawl on February 5 which proudly includes all six Joshua Tree galleries...

Thursday, January 13, 2011

where I live, they are sparse, only 1-2 to an acre...this is the sole Joshua Tree on "my" 2 1/2 acres...

a nearby "dead" one looking like a strange creature as it dissolves back into the earth...

Joshua Trees are particular about altitude, and in areas that are a bit higher, there are a "forests" of Joshua Trees, as here in Pipes Canyon, where the foothills of the San Bernardino mountains begin...